EMEA Market Risk Analyst/Associate job at London Full Time NEW

EMEA Market Risk Analyst/Associate

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London

Market Risk

Full time

Play a key role in ensuring market risks are understood, controlled, and communicated across a leading global financial institution. Join the UK Legal Entity Market Risk team and gain exposure to a wide range of asset classes and risk frameworks. You will investigate risk drivers, support governance, and contribute to improving market risk processes. This role offers strong visibility and collaboration with risk, and senior stakeholders.

As a Market Risk Analyst/Associate in the Legal Entity Market Risk team, you monitor and oversee key market risks of the main risks in the UK entities across multiple asset classes. You analyse risk metrics such as value at risk, sensitivities, and stress testing, and investigate changes in risk and profit and loss. We work together to ensure risks are properly identified, measured, and controlled while supporting governance and reporting. You will collaborate closely with the asset class aligned coverage teams, and other support functions to enhance the market risk framework and deliver effective risk oversight.

Job responsibilities

• Monitor and control key market risks in cooperation with asset class aligned Market Risk teams
• Investigate changes in sensitivities, value at risk, stress testing, and profit and loss, and provide explanations to senior management
• Monitor and maintain market risk limits, including providing oversight and challenge
• Conduct risk analysis on new trades and market events, assessing impact on exposures
• Support the ongoing development of the Market Risk framework, including risk reporting and documentation updates
• Prepare and maintain risk governance materials and ensure alignment with policies and procedures
• Respond to inquiries from regulators and internal and external auditors
• Collaborate with teams across Market Risk Coverage, Legal Entity Risk, Risk Reporting, Middle Office, Treasury, Finance, Technology, and Quantitative Research
• Contribute to improving risk processes and analytical capabilities within the team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent academic background
• Strong interest in financial markets and derivative products
• Proficiency in Excel, including ability to analyse large datasets
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Ability to investigate and explain changes in risk metrics and profit and loss
• Strong communication skills with proficiency in written and spoken English
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively across a wide range of teams
• Motivation and ability to manage tasks and deliver outcomes

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.